I had posted this once before but would like lots of input. What have all of you been told as to the ethnicity of the surname WEST? My cousins in Illinois were told it was PA Dutch. (I hate tulips LOL) others have said Irish, English and the ever present rumors of Indian. This is a curiosity of mine so please answer. Thanks Sandra

My WEST line comes from Samuel WEST (m. Jane(t) Burnside), born 1759, place unknown, died 1844 in Huron, NY. His son, Calvin Brookins WEST, was born in Maryland, Otsego, NY in 1816, moved to Defiance, Ohio before 1844 and died at sea on the ship Sierra Nevada after contracting Chlolera in Panama in route to San Francisco -> Oregon with his family in 1855. CB WEST came to OR in the late 1840's and early 1850's and had a 9000 acre land grant near Roseburg, OR. After his death, his family settled there - the original land grant is still intact and, although no longer in the family, there is a museum located there dedicated to the Wests. I have CB Wests pencil written diaries of his travels in the OR territories. His daughter, Anna West (Webster) is my gggrandmother. The Burnsides fought in the revolutionary war - Jane(t)s father was born in Ireland - she was born in NY - one might speculate that if the Irish kept to themselves, Samuel West may have been a good Irish lad - obviously, there is no way to know for sure. mike ----- Original Message ----- From: Sandra To: WEST-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 10:36 AM Subject: [WEST-L] ETHNICITY of the WEST NAME I had posted this once before but would like lots of input. What have all of you been told as to the ethnicity of the surname WEST? My cousins in Illinois were told it was PA Dutch. (I hate tulips LOL) others have said Irish, English and the ever present rumors of Indian. This is a curiosity of mine so please answer. Thanks Sandra ==== WEST Mailing List ==== Become a transcriber for the Census Project. www.us-census.org

Can you be specific about the location of the West museum? We make trips to that area every once in a while researching other families. My furthest-back West ancestor I can document is Samuel West, b. Bracken County, Ky around 1822. His wife was Nancy Story, also b. KY. No one knows where or when this Samuel died, but Nancy apparently outlived him and died in Adams County, OH sometime after 1880. I don't know why, but I've always thought the Wests in our family were English. Shirley

I'm having a hard time finding the exact location of the museum - as I recall, it was about 7-8 miles east of Roseburg. There was a book published in 1961 (250 copies - I have two of them "somewhere") Publisher: The California History Foundation.. Stuart, Reginald R.; Stuart, Grace D. CALVIN B. WEST OF THE UMPQUA. AN OBSCURE CHAPTER IN THE HISTORY OF SOUTHERN OREGON. Stockton: 1961, One of 250 copies, The California History Foundation. Sorry I can't be of more help at present - I'll have to dig through some boxes of my grandparents old letters as I know they corresponded with the current land owners (current as of about 1980). A quick search of the Douglas County OR web page didn't find anything. mike ----- Original Message ----- From: "`Shirley" <SWB@Olympus.net> To: <WEST-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 12:24 PM Subject: Re: [WEST-L] ETHNICITY of the WEST NAME > Can you be specific about the location of the West museum? We make trips > to > that area every once in a while researching other families. My > furthest-back West ancestor I can document is Samuel West, b. Bracken > County, Ky around 1822. His wife was Nancy Story, also b. KY. No one > knows > where or when this Samuel died, but Nancy apparently outlived him and died > in Adams County, OH sometime after 1880. I don't know why, but I've > always > thought the Wests in our family were English. > > Shirley > > > > ==== WEST Mailing List ==== > To contact WEST-L listowner send a post to > Myra Chambers at WEST-admin@rootsweb.com

When I was a child I was told that I was Irish and Dutch. Later on I was told that the West side of the family were "Black Dutch" but my mother didn't know what that meant. Our Wests had black hair, beautiful blue eyes, and a dark complection. I'm related to the Wests through my mother and her haplogroup is X . I was told by FTDNA that our X is Native American. Andrew Jackson West was born in North Carolina and settled in White County, Tennessee. Lynda ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sandra" <clanmother@bresnan.net> To: <WEST-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 12:36 PM Subject: [WEST-L] ETHNICITY of the WEST NAME >I had posted this once before but would like lots of input. What have all >of you been told as to the ethnicity of the surname WEST? My cousins in >Illinois were told it was PA Dutch. (I hate tulips LOL) others have said >Irish, English and the ever present rumors of Indian. This is a curiosity >of mine so please answer. > > Thanks > > Sandra > > ==== WEST Mailing List ==== > Become a transcriber for the Census Project. > www.us-census.org > >

My Dad was blue eyed, red haired Irish. He had a very close resemblance to the actor, Spencer Tracy, even the facial expressions. His father, Ephram West, had a definite dislike of the English, reasons unknown to me. Earliest West family that I can trace, lived in Lafayette and Johnson County, Mo, in a close knit Irish community, according to the census. Most marriages were between Irish, among them, Campbell, McDowell, Davis, Hogan, and Pool. My g-grandfather Henry Clay West married Julia Pool (Poole), (her mother was a Hogan) and they are buried In Lafayette County Mo, in the Pool family cemetery on a farm that has been in the Pool family since 1833. My oldest living Pool relative is an elderly unmarried farmer, who still works this farm. This cemetery holds my oldest known roots. Henry Clay Wests father, James West born 1808 NC, married Elizabeth --unk.. born 1824, married ca. 1842, in Lafayette Co. MO. His headstone is leaning against a tree at the Pool cemetery, and we have not found any evidence of Elizabeths grave. The West line for me just stops flat, at James 1808 NC. Hope someone knows something more. ..Ginger ----- Original Message ----- From: Sandra To: WEST-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 11:36 AM Subject: [WEST-L] ETHNICITY of the WEST NAME I had posted this once before but would like lots of input. What have all of you been told as to the ethnicity of the surname WEST? My cousins in Illinois were told it was PA Dutch. (I hate tulips LOL) others have said Irish, English and the ever present rumors of Indian. This is a curiosity of mine so please answer. Thanks Sandra ==== WEST Mailing List ==== Become a transcriber for the Census Project. www.us-census.org

It is my understanding that PA. Dutch is actually German. Germany by its natives is called Deutschland. There are so many different West families that there is probably one for every woodpile. Then there are those who aren't really West at all but liked that name better than the one they had. Have I succeeded in saying absolutely nothing? I normally do. Lol HLWest -----Original Message----- From: Sandra [mailto:clanmother@bresnan.net] Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 12:37 PM To: WEST-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [WEST-L] ETHNICITY of the WEST NAME I had posted this once before but would like lots of input. What have all of you been told as to the ethnicity of the surname WEST? My cousins in Illinois were told it was PA Dutch. (I hate tulips LOL) others have said Irish, English and the ever present rumors of Indian. This is a curiosity of mine so please answer. Thanks Sandra ==== WEST Mailing List ==== Become a transcriber for the Census Project. www.us-census.org

Pennsylvania Dutch is actually "Pennsylvania Deutch (pronouncec as Dutch)" or Pennsylvania Germans. It has nothing to do with Dutch or Holland or tulips. Deborah Klawitter Slager Sandra wrote: > I had posted this once before but would like lots of input. What > have all of you been told as to the ethnicity of the surname WEST? My > cousins in Illinois were told it was PA Dutch. (I hate tulips LOL) > others have said Irish, English and the ever present rumors of > Indian. This is a curiosity of mine so please answer. > > Thanks > > Sandra > > ==== WEST Mailing List ==== > Become a transcriber for the Census Project. > www.us-census.org > > >

The West name can probably be traced to various sources. My husband's family was in Delaware before 1740 and probably in Northumberland, Virigina in the late 1600's. So far it appears that they came from England. Eva (Mrs. Dana West Ruben), Nevada City, California -----Original Message----- From: Sandra [mailto:clanmother@bresnan.net] Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 8:37 AM To: WEST-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [WEST-L] ETHNICITY of the WEST NAME I had posted this once before but would like lots of input. What have all of you been told as to the ethnicity of the surname WEST? My cousins in Illinois were told it was PA Dutch. (I hate tulips LOL) others have said Irish, English and the ever present rumors of Indian. This is a curiosity of mine so please answer. Thanks Sandra ==== WEST Mailing List ==== Become a transcriber for the Census Project. www.us-census.org